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B—2=» U EAGLE EMBLEM 15 HELD INCORRECT Nature Writer Declares It Is Wrongly Shown on Seal and Coins. The American eagle, symbol of free- dom, is inadequately appreciated by the people. Even on the great seal of the United States and on the standard coins of the country he is incorrectly depicted. These are the conclusions of Arthur Gibson Morse, local writer of nature lore and history, who has made a spe- cial study of the noble monarch of the air. “Our Government,” he says, “has chosen the eagle as our national em- blem, but, unfortunately, the effigy on the great seal and on our coins is not that of the eagle at all, as we see him in life. The designs show merely a con- ventional figure that has been permitted to pass as an eagle, but really is only a figment of the imagination of the origi- nal artist, an Englishman who was not sufficiently acquainted with his subject. “The common ‘spread eagle’ repre- sentation in the seal and on some coins is absurd. No living eagle ever took! such a position. Only if the bird were! dead and laid on his back could his; legs and wings be forced into the atti- tudes shown. The bird portrayed as feathered to the feet must be the so- called golden eagle of Russia, certainly not the bald eagle of America. Wings at Wrong Angle. “Some coins show a presumptive eagle in flight, but he is not the Ameri- | can bird, for the latter never | the primary feathers of his wings and | never holds his wings at a 45-degree| angle even when about to settle or when picking up prey without stopping. “The American or bald eagle is the largest bird of flight in North America. His normal habitat is the United States and he flourishes particularly in the Northern States, though occasionally seen in Florida or ak the Rio Grande and sometimes wandering into Canada. From Maine to Oregon he is thoroughly at home. Elsewhere he is only a visitor. “When hatched, he is covered with a flufly yellow down. which soon dis- appears in favor of feathers of brown, mottled with white. Through youth this garb continues, but when he ma- tures, in two or three years, he acquires a rich, dark brown of a character that glistens in the sun as though polished. His head and neck become pure white —hence the word ‘Bald’—which only adds to his distinguished appearance. His tail feathers also are spotless white, a fact which makes him easy to clas- sify when seen in flight, though other large birds may be aloft at same time. His legs are feathered to the Jjoint, below which they are bare half- | ‘way to the talons. His feet are strong, : with long toes and sharp, heavy claws. | His strong, curved beak is & notabl feature, “The eagle's height is about 28 to 3v inches, and his weight when mature about 28 to 30 pounds. He attains greav age, barring accident, and may reach 90 years. “Standing on tree or crag he is a beautiful figure, a living ensemble or dignity, resourcefulness, reserve power and independence, a fitting symbol of the United States. But alas, none ot | these qualities appear in the carica- | tures of the bird seen on the great | seal and on our coined money.” Urges New Dies. Mr. Morse believes that new and more scientifically accurate designs should be made. “New dies,” he sa: “are required from time to time, re. gardless of design. The fault could be corrected in the next set without much extra cost. eagle is entitled to ‘a new deal” He has been libeled long enough.” In a discussion of the eagle, shown on the George Washington Bicentennial quarter last year, R. Bruce Horsfall of the Amgerican Nature Association, ar- gued that the bird there depicted was a true enough bald eagle. eagle” he said, “is entitled to feathers | plished by Capt. Hegenberger at Wrig! THE SUNDAY STAR, Y. M. C. A. Old Timers Plan Rem!ion o s VETERAN MEMBERS TO REMINISCE MAY 17 AT “Y.” Seated, left to l']thl: C. ‘W. Pimper, chairman of committee a: Y. M. C. A. old-timers’ reunion May 17; Capt. Standing, rranging C. O. Howard, holder of membership longevity record; H. C. Metcalf, George S. Willlams and E. S. La Fetra. left to right: L. W. De Gast, Grant Leet, G. P. Ravenburg, C. E. Fleming and E. L. Springer. ETERAN members of the Wash- ington Y. M. C. A. will hold their annual dinner and re- union May 17 at the Central “Y” Building, under auspices of the Old-Timers’ Club of the Y. M. C. A., it was announced yesterday by C. W. Pimper, chairman of the committee on arrangements. ‘The “old-timers” will swap stories of the old days in the association and hear an address by Rev. Dr. Allen A, Stock- dale, pastor of the First Congregational Church. All members of the Y. M. C. A. who have been on the rolls for 10 years are urged to join in the get- together. e o [LASS GRADUATED IN'BLIND' LANDING First Army Air Group Ends Training at Wright Field, Ohio. The world's first class of “blind landing” pilots has been graduated by the Army Air Corps, which now boasts le | seven pilots who can fly and land by instrument entirely in the densest fog or under hoods which prevent them | seeing anything outside their planes. In announcing graduation of the unique class, the Air Corps pointed out that up to a year ago only two men in the world, both pilots in the United States Army at the time, had made blind landings. Hegenberger Instructs. The “blind landing” pilots, who were trained at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, are Maj. F. H. Coleman, First Lieuts. G. V. Holloman, S. E. Prudhomme, R. J. Minty, C. D. McAllister and Second Lieut. L. F. Harman. The seventh is| the class instructor, Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, navigator on the first transpacific flight and first man in the world to make a completely blind fiight and landing alone in a plane. ‘The class was graduated almost on| the anniversary of the first solo blind | flights and landings in history, acooms Field in May, 1932. The first blind landings in history were made more than two years ago by Maj. James little, Army Air Corps, then on detached “The bald | quty with the Guggenheim Fund for the | central section of the Capitol. | Promotion of Aeronautics. He was ac- —Photo by Leet Bros. ARCHITECTS STUDY WORK FOR TEMPLE Studio in Rosslyn Producing Ornamentation to Be Sent to Chicago. More than & hundred Washington architects and engineers visited the John J. Early studio in Roeslyn, Va. yesterday and inspected the architec- tural ornamentation which is being molded there for the Bahai Temple of Light, under construction near Chicago. The many new engineering and architectural principles which are em- bodied in the building of the temple Earley and A. B. McDaniel of Washing- ton, consulting engineer for the temple project. The temple, which is to be a house of worship for all religions of the world, was the dream of Louis Jean Bourgeois, architect, of Wilmette, Ill. It is unique in design and described as “the first new idea in architecture since the | thirteenth century.” The foundations were completed more than 10 years ago, :;1;1} the superstructure finished in May, The highly ornamental covering for the dome and sides, the delicately molded ribbons for the many designs of through & process known only to Mr. | Earley. Owing to the prohibitive cost of carving the intricate designs of the ornamentation, the flowery outer sur- face is being molded from architectural concrete. White cement combined with two varieties of quartz which it took engineers months to locate, snowy white stone and a clear radiant mate- rial compose the material used in molding the ornamentation to carry out Mr. Bourgeois’ conception of a tem- ple of light. The concrete, engineers say. will wash itself. The temple, according to Mr. Mc- will be a building unique in all 1d, embodying most of the bet- ter known types of architecture. At | first glance it will give an appearance somewhat like the Taj Mahal of India. mmenwmbe.boutmumeu_‘t_hhz e | dome will be one of the few ribbed | Daniel, | the wor on its legs, so long as they are bare companied by a safety pilot who could | ones in the world. The temple will be below the knees. When it begins get- ting feathers below its knees, however, it loses cast as a bald eagle and is no better than a plain golden eagle.” ‘The knees of the Bicentennial eagle were bare to the extreme of nakedness, 2nd Mr. Morse has no quarrel with its It is the eagle of other coins NAVY HEADS FINISH DISMISSAL LISTS Several Weeks' Task of Selecting 200 Civilian Employes Believed Virtually Complete. Navy Department officials yesterday virtuaily completed the severa] weeks’ task of selecting the some 200 civilian employes slated for discharge May 31 as an economy move. They turned the st over to the Civil Service Commis- | sion to make sure all rules and regu- lations have been complied with. Navy officials were unable, however, pending a fina! check-up, to state the exact number to be released in each, of the various bureaus. Chief clerks of the various bureaus in the department have been up early and late to tabulate the necessary in- formation. The Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, which has some 450 em- ployes and is the largest of the Navy's bureaus, had a special board at work for more than 10 days picking eligibles ! for discharge. ELEREETE MARINE BAND TO PLAY FOR BROOKLYN MOTHER| “Poet and Peasant Overture” to Be! Presented in Resuming Regular Broadcast Schedule. When the Marine Band goes back on its regular radio broadcast schedule Friday morning, one of the first selec- | tions to be played will be in response | to a request of s Brooklyn, N. mother, who, with her recently de- ceased son, has enjoyed the music of | the famous band for a long time. A. Dessez, who has harge gs for the band, said | the “Poet and Peasant Overture” would be rendered in honor of a Mrs. Taylor , that her son, an invalld for 14 years, | died recently of pneumonia and for| years had enjoyed the “shut-in” hour taken off the air not long ago he| was keenly disappointed, the mother wrote. Marine Corps officials were so touched by her communication that :fiey,‘hd:clded to place her request before | —_— AUTO AND TAXI COLLIDE Hlight Injuries Are Received by Two Women. ‘Two women were slightly hurt when the automobile in which they were riding collided Iaté yesterday with a taxicab at Eighth street and Concord avenue. They were Mrs. Violet T. Tholl, | 48, of 807 Tuckerman street, the driver. and Miss Mary Ross, 28, of the same sddress. They were treated by a private . _Police reported the taxi was driven by Pranklin Shuford, 34, of the 4200 block of I street, take over the controls instantly in case of trouble. Equipment Developed. In connection with its blind flight , the Air Corps has developed fleld equipment for controlling blind landings which can be set up for use on short notice at any field or airport. Radio is used and the equipment adds little to the weight of the plane’s nor- mal equipment. Ground units are so compact they can be flown from place to place in an airplane or moved in a motor cycle sidecar. It was the aim of the Air Corps in conducting this work “not to make an occasional blind landing possible, but to make all blind landings possible for all pilots, at all airdromes, even under the | " the worst_conditions of fog or storm, the ‘War Department said in announcing achievement. POSTAL CLERKS INSTALL BUR'CH AS PRESIDENT Local 140 and Women's Auxiliary Congratulated by House Com- mittee Chairman. Willlam E. Burch was inaugurated as president last night at the annual in- stallation of officers by Local 140, Na- tion PFederation of Office Clerks. Chairman Meade of the House Post Office Committee, the guest of honor, congratulated the group and the ‘Women'’s Auxiliary on their organiszation and interest. Other officers installed included: Pirst vice president, Russell Dale; sec- ond vice president, Pauline Bauer; re- cording secretary, Joseph Hurwitz; financial secretary, Walter T. Wilkin- son; treasurer, John T. Sheehy; ser- geant at arms, Stanley Schumm;_trus- tees, Harry Lockwood, Dan Johnson and Willlam T. Harris. The secretary- treasurer for sick and death benefits is William Reichenbach. ‘The Women's Auxiliary of the organ- ization also installed officers. Mrs. O. F. Sandefur is the new president; Mrs, Irving Silverberg, vice president: Mrs. M. M. O'Connor, secretary, Mrs. S. Reichenback. treasurer; Mrs. Stephen Jones, Mrs. N Schutz and Mrs. DeWight Carlton, trustees. The national treas- urer of the Women's Auxiliary, Mrs. Agnes C. Wilkinson, took a prominent part in the proceedings. | located on the shores of Lake Michigan, 14 miles north of Chicago. It is expected that the dome orna- mentation will be completed this year at the Early studio. |SEWAGE PLANT URGED [ FOR RIVER POLLUTION Group Interested in Fishing Hears Bell's Suggestion to Clean Up Potomac. Erection of a modern sewage dis- posal plant to eliminate pollution of iven at Fort Humphreys. Va. last nil?lb by Commissioner Frank T. Bell of the Bureau of Fisheries. His guests included a number of promi- nent men interested in fishing. ‘Among the guests were Senators Dill of Washington, Wheeler, Montana, and Murphy, Iowa; former Senator Hawes, Missourl; Representatives Willford, Towa, and Thomason, Texas: Col. E. H. Schulz, commandant of Fort Hum- | dinner phreys: A. K. Brown, M. C. James, Charles Burnham, Glen C. Leach, Dr. M. D'Arcy Magee, gresmem, of the Dis- trict of Columbia Chapter of the Izaak Walton League; W. McK. Stowell, Dr. | William H. Holton, C. 8. Maclntire, | Perry Miller, C. C. Tompkins, Seth | Gordon, president of the American Game Association; Carl Shoemaker, secretary of the Wild Life Committee of the Senate; Phillip Clarke, Albert 1?‘.‘ 42"‘““’" w! win and A. E. | SMALL NOTES NUMEROUS Many little fellows who borrowed one or two hundred dollars to tide ihem over the emergency have joined the Dawses, the Atterburys, and other big | men of finance whose firms are indebted | now to the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration. sands of small notes ranging from $50 | to $100 and up, as collateral for loans | to_banks. In instances where the banks have failed to open, the corporation has taken up the task of collecting money due. These notes are secured by endorse- ments or in some instances, collateral. were described to the visitors by Mr.! the building, are being worked out now | the Potomac River was discussed at a| phreys; Maj. E. A. Bethel, Fort Hum- The corporation has acquired thou- | CONNIVANCE INBIDS 1S PROBED BY 1. §. Ickes Files Charges With Trade Commission on Cement Offers. By the Assoclated Press. An investigation by the Federal Gov- ernment of charges of connivance |among bidders seeking contracts for | cement on Federal and State road work | was in progress last night. | secretary of the Interior Ickes fiiea | the charges with the Pederal Trade | Cor , citing several instances in ! which prices for cement materials were the same. Confers With March. As the first step in the investigation, Ickes conferred with Chairman Charles | commission officials said a conference would be had immediately with the | manufacturers against whom complaint | had been made with a view to possible | formal complaints being issued. In the jevent a formal complaint is issued, { hearings will be held, and if they sub- stantiate the charges a cease and desist order would be issued. Defendant firms are not named by the commission during investigations. Backed by Horner. Ickes' protest drew immediate back- ing from Gov. Horner of Illinois, who | | telegraphed the Secretary, expressing hope there would be no amendment to | | the Federal anti-trust act which might permit associations or any combination | of manufacturers increasing prices. { "My experience in this State with an unlawful combination of cement man- ufacturers, who raised prices from 94 cents to $1.62 a barrel” the Illinois Smrer'.r;:n-t t:;‘eenphsd leads me to be- eve that the proposed change in the legisiation is unwise.” 25 | 'He added similar situations were faced in Indiana and Iowa. CATH OLIC U. ORATORY | Washington, Baltimore and Cum- berland Winners Will Compete. ‘The finals of the oratorical contest | which is being sponsored by the Catholic University Conference of | Clerics and Religious of the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade will be held ' Tuesday. night at 8 o'clock in the university gymnasium. | Speakers who have won their way to | the top in the districts of Washington, Baitimore and Cumberland will compete , for the Archbishop Curley mission trophy. | . The finalists are: Miss Anna Mudd, | Notre Dame High School, Bryantown, | Md.: Willlam J. Tobin, jr. St. John's | College. Washington: Miss Rosalie Patterson, St. Peter | Westernport, Md., Raum, Institute Baltimore. a of Notre Dame, Right Rev. . David T. O'Dwyer, | procurator of e university, will be | chairman. The judges will be Right | Rev. Mgr. Joseph Cunane, pastor of Anthony's Church, Baltimore; | Representative Mary T. Norton and ‘William C. Walsh, Cumberland attorney. | SR | L {SEVEN BOYS IN BICYCLE THEFT GANG ARE JAILED | Stealing of Over 50 Is Charged to Ring of Youths Operating Since October, 1832. Seven boys, comprising a gang of juvenile bicycle thieves who have been operating since October, 1932, were ar- rested yesterday by Detective Timothy | A. PFitzgerald, attached to headquarters. | Fitzgerald said the boys had been operating extensively in various sec- tions of the city and taking their loot to a garage the 13 block of Seventeenth place northeast, where they stripped the bicycles. Frames were thrown in a sewer near the river, while the accessories were scld. | _ Twelve bicycles were recovered by | Pitzgerald and beiween 40 and 50 others are said to have been disposed |of by the youths. Among the victims of the juvenile gang were the Postal Telegraph Co and the House Office Bullding messenger force, Anacostia School Plans Approved FINE ARTS COMMISSION SANCTIONS COLONIAL DESIGN FOR BUILDING. ERE are the lans conceived by the municipal architect’s office for the at Sixteenth and R streets southeast. proposed Anacostia Junior High School, ‘The Fine Arts Commission has just approved these plans, now' pristed for this projected new center of mfl.mmmu —Star Stafl WASHINGTON, D. C, H. March of the Trade Commission ana | - FINALS ARE TUESDAY | BROADER D. G. HEAD AUTHORITY SOUGHT Representative McLeod to Introduce Bill This Ses- sion of Congress. Representative McLeod, Republican, of Michigan, announced his intention yesterday of introducing a bill during the special session of Congress to broaden the powers of the District Commissioners. A preliminary draft of the measure already has been completed and the finishing touches are ex) to be added before the close of the week. Mr. McLeod's bill will be designed to transfer to the Commissioners many of the administrative functions Congress is called upon to perform for the Dis- trict. His idea is to give the Board of Commissioners virtually the same au- thority in promulgating municipal rules and regulations that a city council en- joys in other jurisdictions. ‘Wastes Time on Trivialities. Congress now, Mr. MeLeod believes, is required to use too much of its time en- acting trivial legisiation for the District —Ilegislation that would be unnecessary if the hands of the Commissioners were not so tightly tied by the existing set-up. The Commissioners, he pointed out, must seek the approval of Congress be- fore issuing & permit to transfer a body | from one cemetery to another. The authority of Congress also must be sought, he explained, if the Commis- sioners desire to grant a permit for the extension of a pipe line for a private, firm, as was done last year for one of the large gasoline companies. Feels Board Is Competent. Such s procedure, Mr. McLeod sald, not only delays necessary municipal functions, but takes up the time of members of Congress considering such legislation in committees and then on the floor of the House and Senate. The Board of Commissioners, he feels, is competent to act on municipal func- tions of this character without mkln(i con| Altl ssional approval. { Hough Mr. McLeod will introduce | the bill at the special session., House| action probably will not be taken until | the regular session in January. Only District legislation of an emergency na- | ture 15 to be considered during the, extra session, and thus far but one bill, which would authorize & merger of the ‘Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos., has been placed in that category. Seeks Minimum Delay. Mr. McLeod, however, hopes to his measures on the House calendar so there will be a minimum of delay in having it considered when the regular session convenes. | The gas merger bill probably will be | reported to the House the latter part; of this week, with assurance from | Speaker Rainey that it will be called | up as soon as the emergency national legislation is out of the way. A fa- vorable report on the measure is now | being prepared by Representative Black. Democrat. of New York. chairman of | the Public Utilities Subcommittee of | the House District Committee. He said | his subcommittee would not recommend | the mc]uswnhnf :lnBlHI!(!nd.r:enl D{O- posed by Richmond B. Keech, people’s Founsel " before the Public = Utilities | Commission. which would eliminate | “going concern” as an element of value in any future revaluation of the gas properties. L S CAPPER WILL ADDRESS FEDERATION OF WOMEN Reports of 20 Clubs to Be Made at Opening Session of D. C. / Reports by the presidents of 29 clubs | and an address by Senator Arthur Cap-' per of Kansas will feature the open- ing session of the annual meeting of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs tomorrow at the Roosevelt Hotel. The reports will be made at the morn- ing meeting, which will open at 10 o'clock, while Senator Capper is sched- uled to talk at 11:30 am. Mrs. Norma Simonson and Mrs. Dorothy Raddie Emery will take part in a musical pro-| gram at 12:30 pm. The annual| memorial service will be held at 2| o'clock. | The meeting will close Tuesday, when | reports will be made by department chairmen and division and committee heads. In the afternoon, awards will| be made to winners in the poetry con-| test conducted by the federation. Eighty-five women poets in the District took part in the cqntest. ITALIAN BUYERS OF U.S. BONDS RAISE COMPLAINT Protest Decision of Home Corpora- tions to Pay Interest in Depre- ciated Dollars. Group Tomorrow. By the Associated Press ROME, May 6. —The Italian investin public complained tonight because of the boomerang effect of the decision of 53 Italian corporations to abrogate the gold clause in bond and dollar loans floated in the United States and to pay ! the interest in depreciated dollars. ‘The decision, which became known today, was taken 10 days ago before the United States Government’s announce- ment of abrogation of the gold clause in_Government bonds. ‘The annual interest payments average approximately $16,010,000. Complaint was rcised as Italian in- vestors, who repu: hased perhaps a majority of the bconds in the United States, found the Lurden of the loss settling on their shoulders. The maneuver thus created two camps here, the corporations, which gain, and the investors, who lose. Italian government bonds and munic- ipal dollar bonds are not involved in: the agreement. G. A. LEISSLER BURIED George A. Leissler, 75, who died at his home on Lee highway, East Falls Church, Tuesday, was buried in Oak- wood Cemetery, Falls Church, Thurs- day. Funeral services were held at the residence. Born in Darmstadt, Germany, Mr. Lelssler at one time took care of the park at the Summer castle of the late Crar of Russia. After a visit to France and England, he was selected as head gardener for Queen Victoria. He had lived in Arlington Ccunty since 1900. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Annie Grigsby Leissler, and two sons, George A. and J. Fred Leissler. Georgia Bank Robbed. FAYETTEVILLE, Ga., May 6 (@) .— Three men early today robbed the Farmers & Mel its Bank here of an ted amount of $1,600 after holding the cashier, H. C. Howell, & prisoner in his home over night and forcing him to open the vauit. Prizes Awarded at Yale. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 8 (#).— and Lyman Spitzer, jr., of Toledo, | committee of the American section of MAY 7, 1933—PART ONE. Handicraft Features Exhibit CAMPING EXPOSITION CLOSES AT Y. W. C. A. (AMPLETTS ¢ LL forms*of handicraft including boats likc that shown above were shown at the camping exposition which closed yesterday at the Y. W. C. A. Groups participating in the program, which was arranged by the Recrea- tion Committee of the Council of Social Agencies to demonstrate the benefits of camp life, included the Girl and Boy Scouts, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A, Boys Club, Salvation Army, Holiday House, Summer Outings Com- mittee, Playground Department, Tuberculosis Society and the Community Center Department. —Star Staff Photo. BUDGETS HELDKEY D.C.SUPRLYBILL TOBASISOFGOLD CONFEREES NAMED American Section of World C. Cannor to Take Place of Bu- of C. to Urge Balancing at i chanan as Chairman of | Vienna Congress. Committee. By the Associated Press. Balancing of budgets through ex- pense cuts and adequate taxation in all nations is regarded by a special Chairman Buchanan yesterday an- Ralney for appointment _tomorrow. They are Representatives Missouri, Blanton of Tex chanan of Texas, all Democrats, and Representatives Taber and Bacon of New York, Republicans. As chairman of the Deficiency Sub- committee which drafted the District the International Chamber of Com- merce as the first step toward a return to gold as the world’s basis of comput- ing values. This declaration was made here yes- terday in a report to be submitted to the Vienna Congress of the Interna- tional Chamber during June. The main proposals of the committee’s report be chairman of the Conference Com- mittee, but he has relinquished that post to Representative Cannon, who was nounced the House conferees on the District of Columbia appropriation bill whom he will recommend to Speaker Cannon_of s and Bu- supply bill, Mr. Buchanan himself would RELIEF MOBILIZED IN STRICKEN AREA Alabama and South Carolina Need Medicines, Food and Clothing. ;’ly the Associated Press. | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 6.—Relief | agencles moved into the Awr}::»u'epl areas of Alabama today armed with geee%i;mu, food and clothing for the. The death list stood at 22, but there was likeilhood that it might be in- creased because of fatalities among sections - tonight the injured. The tabulation bi! stood: Helena, 11; Bibb County (Brent), 7; Demopolis, 4. Army tents arose among debris at Helena as National Guardsmen erected shelters for 350 persons. Others took refuge in buildings left in habitable | condition. Anti-tetanus serum was administered and, under the direction of Red Cross relief workers, proper sanitation meas- ures were taken. National Guardsmen were on duty at Helena for police work, relievin Birmingham police and members o the American Legion, who had volun- | teered for the duty. RELIEF MOBILIZED. Carolina Has 17 Dead—Scores Left Homeless by Friday's Tornade. ANDERSON, 8. C, May 6 (P .— South Carolina mobilized its relief forces today to carry aid to the tornado- stricken sections of Anderson, Green- ville and Laurens Counties, where 17 persons were killed outright or fatally injured, & hundred or more hurt and scores left homeless by yesterday's twister. As the Red Cross and other relief {agencies checked up today they found approximately 60 families homeless in Belton, Textile City, in Anderson County, where the tornado struck with greatest fury, and 20 more in the Leba- non section near the Greenville-Laurens County line Two additional names were added to- day to the death list with the deaths of Bennie Thompson, 17, and Hattie | Wright. 60, colored. Young Thompson died in a Greenville hospital and the Wright woman at Anderson. |LACK OF SUPERVISION | IN PARK WORK FEARED !Shortage of Trained Men in Giv- ing Jobs to City's Unem- | ployed. Federal authorities foresee a grave problem in working the unemployed ‘ln the city's parks unless steps are )lnken to provide trained supervision. | Cenferenees are now gomng forward between officials of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks with a view to rectifying the situation. Park officials say that because of deaths, resignations and the inability to fill vacancies as they arise, they are rapidly becoming shcrthanded in train- ed men who can take the unemployed, gathered from all walks of life, and direct their work in beneficlal park improvement. Men qualifiad for such supervisory work are nct easy to find, they added. \ A further lay-off in regular park employes is in prospect because of radically reduced funds in the inde- looking to stabilization of currencies on a gold basis are: “That the world monetary and eco- nomic conference should state one of its first objectives to be the establish- ment of a definite relation of the im- portant commercial currencies of the world to gold and to each other and | agree upon a program to achieve it. | “That the first step to be taken in such a program is balance in public | budgets in all countries, to be accom- i plished primartly by reduction in go: ernment expenditures and secondarily by adequate taxation. | “That the following additional meas- ures are prerequisite to a return to currency stability: The elimination of forelgn exchange controls, the final set- tlement of reparations and intergov- ernment debts, the stabilization of cur- rencies in relation to gold and to each other at a time and level consistent with the internal economic situation and external trade and financial rela- tions of the country concerned, ana, following such stabiiization. the eli ination of trade restrictions super posed upon the protec! structure reason of monetary instability. “That the maintenance of currency stability is dependent upon a contin- uance of budgetary equilibrium, central bank co-operation and prompt steps to bring about a greater liberty of trade.” ‘The report was drafted by a commit- tee of seven. headed by E. G. Miner, Rochester, N. Y. Other committee members were W. Averill Harriman New York: W. 8. McLucas, Detroit; | Clark H. Minor, New York; Henry M. Robinson, Los Angeles; Melvin A. Tra m- Klnr. Chicago, and Oscar Wells, Bir- | mingham, Ala. s ; VAGRANT IS FREED | IN GIRL'S SLAYING Mineola, N. Y., Suspect N:xtl Grilled on Disappearance of Po- lice Sergeant’s Son. By the Assoclated Press. MINEOLA, N. Y, May 6—James| Gavagan, vagrant arrested as a bogus | priest in Philadelphia, was virtually| freed of suspicion tonight in the bru-| tal murder of 15-year-old Mary Helen O'Connor, but police from nighboring Queen’s County immediately questioned | him concerning the disappearance sev- eral weeks ago of the 12-year-old son | !of Sergt. Michael Gavagan of the Flush- | ing police. Chief Inspector Harold R. King of | Nassau County said: “Gavagan is eliminated with a rea- sonable degree of certainty from the O'Connor case. He produced an alibi that is standing up.” In this alibi Gavagan said he spent ' the morning and part of the afternoon | of January 27—the day the O'Connor girl disappeared from her Long Island home—with PFrank Gavagan, 18-year- old son of Patrolman Tom Gavagan of | Flushing, Queens. In the afternoon, the prisoner said, he went to the home of Sergt. Gava- | gan, and that night accompanied two ot his daughters to a dance at & neigh- borhood Catholic church. The disappearance of the police ser- geant’s 12-year-old son, whose name was not immediately known to Nassau gt;uce. was not made public until the nu%‘tdemm vagrant was questioned to- | e FOUR DIE AT PARTY nette’s “hobo jungle. The dead are Mike (8 Jack) Kelly, host of the group; William Pea Marinette; Jack Grady, 72, nd Tom Brown, 60, believed to have drifted here from Manistee, Mich. was held in the rounded a Chairman of the District sub-committce "orocn Oces ’pp:‘mmmu,“u in the last session when the District bl fatled. Although the House will probably ap- prove the conferees tomorrow, th: ferences with the Senate until Wednesday or Thursday. is expected the independent office sup- Woman's Apartment Looted. Loot valued at about $235 was taken frem the apartment of Miss Margaret R. Wilson. 1900 F street, yesterday afternoon while she was absent from home. Entrance was gained through a ply bill will have passed the House. This | door which had been left unlocked. bill is special order of business for to- | A black leather pocketbook containing morrow. and Chairman Buchanan said | $130 in cash, a check for $40, & wrist he expects it will take the House at least | watch valued at $30 and a gold ring two days to dispose of it. | worth $25 were stolen. Monday and Tuesday at P. Mann & Co. 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